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THE EAGLE: WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 1895.
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DECORATIVE ÍÍ A3 YnOI.OMY.
The tt)'U I uve fl.i.-V a trout C..iingt In
the Pant Century.
Decorative gastronomy has under
gone a vast change in the last hundred
years or more. Culinary fancy then
asserted its claims. In the last ccntrry.
says an exchange, it was required of
dishes that they should look tempting,
provoke inquiry, and arouse interest
and expectation, l ig was dressed to
look like lamb, lamb to taste like pig,
pike to taste like sturgeon. Jlhicuueat
was pressed in molds, and cunningly
colored with herb.; jo as to rcsemMc
melons; veal was wtufced into fish
skins, and fried parsnips made to take
on the disguise of trout. The furniture
and equipment of the table were of
r.ccondary importance. It was only
necessary that the dishes, which were
:ll in evidence, should gratify the eye
and furnish the decorativo quality.
With the close oí the nineteenth the
gastronomic method.; of the eighteenth
entury nre completely reversed.
C-.-.linary delight.; v.zd r.irpi ir.es are
r.o-v a matter of minor moment. All
etTort is expended upon bewildering
r.nd brillia.it sjlimea of table doeora
iion. Flowers, silk, lace, linen, chinn.
glass, silver and gold, and the wonder
ful adaptations of the electric light, arc
all combined to make of the dinner
table a picture carefully studied in all
of its details of composition and color.
The imagination is racked to suggest
odd and costly combinations whereby
one social rival may outdo the other.
At a dinner recently given in l'aris
by an American woman the menus,
painted by an artist of eminence, cost
one hundred dollars each. Even such
men as Jan Van Beers are solicited tt
give their time and ability to the cre
ation of these decorative cards. This
lavish appeal to the eye is at the ex
pense of the stomach.
People no longer accept an invita
tion to dine to satisfy a line discrimin
ating love of good living. They go, as
to an exhibition, to compare the deco
rative resources of jealous competitors.
.air had grown again. The "country
;rop" was a different matter alto
gether. Barbers' work was done on men and
boys in many instances at home by
mothers and grandmothers, and their
mode was to put a large basin well
back on the crown of the head, and
then shear round the edge of the basin,
making a clean sweep of all the hair
which projected below it. This was
the "country crop."
Bringing tho Deuel to l ife.
A variety of methods ol restoring
life in those apparently dead from
drowning, asphyxiation, etc., have been
advocated, but with indifferent success,
lore than a year ago the celebrated Dr.
Do Baun declared that "if a person
dies simply for want of breath, there is
no good reason why ho should not live
r.gain if the proper-means for restoring
life are rcsortCd to." Upon a chance
presenting itself, Do Baun proceeded to
;irove the truth of his assertion. A
child, apparently dead from drowning,
was brought to him with the statement
that it hud been dead about fifteen
minutes. lie immediately passed a
small rubber tube through its nostrils,
und closing the mouth tightly, pm
;eeded to fono the air into the lungs.
After the lungs had been fully inflated,
he released the pressure from the
mouth and found, as ho had expected,
that the elasticity of the chest muscles
cansed an immediate contraction of
I the lungs. This contraction formed
natural respiration, but artiliuial in
spiration was kept up for nearly an
hour, at the end of which time the
breathing was perfect and the child's
life saved.
THE HAIR-CUT.
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Neatly Done.
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Satisfaction Guaranteed.
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FIRE, LIFE AND ACCIDENT
INSURANCE.
rccullfir Significance or the Different
Styles In Old England.
For, say, fifty years, the fashion of
the wearing of men's and boy's hair in
England has been to cut it shorter and
shorter, so that to-day hair is shorn in
many cases as close as the barber'.;
shears can get. A closely-cropped head,
iifty years and less ago, was, in many
places, looked upon with some sus
picion, for then only prison birds just
out óf durance appeared with elosely
r.horn heads, and this cut was popularly
known as the "county crop," indicating
that tho wearer of the short hair had
been harbored at the expenso of the
county.
If any man was bold enough, says
Notes and Queries, to appear with his
hair cut short, the words "country
crop" were thrown at him from all
sides; and, in tho same manner, the
school lad who eaine to school with his
hair cut shorter than was the country
fashion, had his life made miserable in
the samo wav, until such time as his
An Ullimli Girl.
And speaking of pronunciation, says
a Washington correspondent, I sat next
an Illinois girl in the home gallery the
other day and marked tho manner of
her speech, which was strange to a
Washington car. She did not slight a
single "r." The broad English "a"
eastern people affect was unknown to
her. She asked me what time congress
"took up" and when it "let out." She
spoke of a brook in her home and called
it a "branch." She said it seemed so
funny to get six car tickets for "two
bits," and she told me sho had not at
tended the opening of congress because
she "could not get to go" but that she
neant to hear just as many great
speeches as she could "get to hear."
Then she excused herself and went
away, as she said she had "some trading
to do for ma."
Let II I m Elude.
In some private theatricals in India a
fugitivo from justice was supposed to
escape from his pursuers by concealing
himself under a table. The table was
small, while the fugitive was some
what lengthy. The commander of the
pursuing party rushed on the stage and
fell over tho legs of the man he was
r.earehing for. Ticking himself up and
ludicrously rubbing his shins, he caused
i roars of laughter by exclaiming in true
ihamutie style: "Hal tho, villain has
I -bided us again!"
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